Is it time to make floppy dumplings?

[sandypaws]

if an animal ATTACKS you ,, really what kind of PET is that???
this creature could disfigure a child,, and you are worried about the roosters LIFE????..... WOW

fine... YOU need to start a ROOSTER rescue.... i have 7 needing homes right now. where do you want me to send them????

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[apukanski]

I don't have a rooster but one of my hens attack me every time I go out there. I know she is a layer so I don't want to have to get rid of her. But it is a pain on a daily basis.

 

[Barn Maid Ann]

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You know.... this is not always possible. I have two of my (4) roosters advertised on Craigs. I had good luck selling our others off there last fall. I love all of mine, and we have been 'training' them for months now, but I simply have too many for the number of hens. I have bare, and now bloody backs on my girls. So someone must go.
I did have someone who sounded sincere call today and he may take one or two. But I know some of the others, previously, who claimed they 'needed' a roo for their flock were full of it. They will tell you what you want to hear. No doubt they were eating them, or worse....fighting them!

 

[Poison Ivy]

I do the garden hose trick on mine and they stay clear of me. I would try it and if it doesn't work then make soup of him. I wouldn't want to give a problem roo to someone else and they get hurt or their kid gets hurt. Good luck with him hopefully he will get the message you mean business.

 

[chicken farmer meigs]

When my daughter was 3 my bard rock rooster that she raised flew up and tried to spur her. He did not see the sun set that night. When ate him for dinner all she could say was he should have not tried to attack her. No animal is worth my little girls saftey. I say eat him and get a nicer rooster.

 

[2boxers]

Poison Ivy, that was my reasoning altogether. And who wants to take a roo who is known to go after kids?

I'm going to give him one more chance. I don't know if it's best to keep him up (in the run and not let hm free range) or to allow him and my daughter to be out together so that she can whack him once real good. She freaks out when it happens and I don't know that she would whack him, which I believe is all it would take to settle him down. The first time it happened, she was going into the coop where the nest boxes are doing her chores, which is getting eggs. I sort of let that slide since she was going into his territory. The second time it happened, though, she was on our back porch minding her own business.

Please, DuckCrew, know that while I am all for the flushing of fish when they need to be culled (long story) and I do choose the well being of my child over that of a rooster, I am not a monster.

 

[stormylady]

I can't believe Im going to say this butt........
you can love an animal, treat it with respect and give it a happy full life,and still eat it, chicken is good food, and serves a purpose, So if you have a Roo that is dangerous or you just got too many, I say kill humanely and enjoy. this is just my opinion so don't come gunnin' for me, but why would you give a rooster that is mean to someone else to have problems with, when in the end you could have a nice meal. stormy

 

[TheDuckCrew]

sorry. i know the safety of your child comes first. i would be devastaded though. i would end up bringing him to a vet to be put down if i had to kill him. i know you're not a monster, sorry if i made it sound like that, just some of the things people were saying just seemed like they didn't care for their rooster's life at all! but i DO understand that your children and family come first.

 

[Xtina]

I also can understand the urge not to kill a pet. It's part of how most American children are raised, but I've begun to have a shift in my philosophy toward it after seeing how disconnected many of us are from the natural order of things. I don't want to start a flaming match either, but I'm an unapologetic omnivore and that being the case, I recognize that some animals are going to be eaten by me. That goes extra for mean roosters and hens who eat their eggs. Not that I've had to resort to that yet, but one day I will.

If a person hadn't been raised by a mother who survived a war and a depression in what was then a third world country, I could see how taking a pet chicken to the vet and paying to have it euthanized and then burying it in the ground would make sense. But tell that to anyone who ever starved or anyone who was raised by anyone who starved. Think about how much an organically raised, grass-fed bird would cost at an ethical farm, which is really what the backyard is. Probably around $20 per chicken. Now tell an Ethiopian that you're going to buy that bird and bury it in a hole. Or, take a $20 bill and bury it in the backyard.

Everyone who said that it's unethical to rehome a mean rooster is probably right...it would take a special owner to keep that bird, and truth be told, it would end up in the soup pot anyhow. So if it were me, I'd eat that rooster myself. It reminds me of the time I was at my aunt's house for lunch. We were eating chicken and suddenly my aunt looked at my 4 year old cousin and said "What you're eating right now is that mean rooster that attacked you." My cousin nodded her head and chewed that drumstick with extra vigor. It's part of raising kids who understand where their food comes from.

 

[stormylady]

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Agreed